2017 Fred Ebb Award Given to Shaina Taub

Raised in the green mountains of Vermont, Shaina Taub is a New York-based songwriter and performer.

Her concert work includes a Lincoln Center solo debut in the acclaimed American Songbook series, as well as residencies at Ars Nova and Rockwood Music Hall. Taub has independently released two EPs and a full-length album Visitors, and will play a year-long residency of monthly shows at the Public Theater’s Joe’s Pub in 2017.

As a songwriter, she is a winner of the Jonathan Larson Grant and the first female recipient of the ASCAP Foundation’s Lucille and Jack Yellen Award. She writes tunes for Sesame Street, including Just Like Magic featuring Sara Bareilles. Six-time Tony winner Audra McDonald is currently performs Taub’s song, The Tale of Bear & Otter on tour. Taub’s songs have also been performed by Broadway stars Sutton Foster and Phillipa Soo.

Taub’s original musical adaptation Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night was commissioned by the Public Theater as part of the groundbreaking Public Works initiative and received a critically acclaimed production at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park in which she played the role of Feste. Her original soul-folk opera, The Daughters, was featured in workshop productions at CAP21 Theater Company, and New York University’s mainstage season. Taub is currently writing a new musical about Alice Paul and the American women’s suffrage movement in the decade leading up to the passage of the 19th amendment.